this is the oldest hotel in Chicago, and it claims (as do a dozen others) to be the longest continuously running hotel in North America. The Palmer House also claims that it was the largest hotel ...

The seven-bedroom limestone mansion at 79 East Cedar Street is a rare single-family listing in Chicago’s Gold Coast.

A 19th-century mansion on Cedar Street, built by the onetime “Queen of Chicago ... Bertha Palmer exerted significant influence in the now-cherished interior design of the Palmer House Hotel ...